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Post by claude on Aug 10, 2015 12:12:35 GMT -5
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 10, 2015 13:15:13 GMT -5
wow
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Post by claude on Aug 11, 2015 5:20:37 GMT -5
This graph really caused me angst...we have finite water supplies and we don't protect them as we should. With these levels, has anyone escaped contamination?
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Post by oliverman on Aug 14, 2015 0:16:43 GMT -5
Any information about total herbicide use? Perhaps glyphosate has been used in place of other active ingredients such as atrizine and 2-4D in recent years.
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Post by claude on Aug 14, 2015 4:00:18 GMT -5
To my understanding 2-4d was just approved for use on the roundup ready resistant weeds. The uses for roundup have increased. They use it as an anti desiccant just prior to harvest. (Just in case the first spray in the growing season did not leave enough)..on wheat, soy, potatoes, garlic..and I'm sure that there are other crops as well
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Aug 14, 2015 8:41:48 GMT -5
I am so glad to be able to have the opportunity to grow my own vegetables.
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Post by kimmsrđź•Š on Aug 15, 2015 5:58:30 GMT -5
Back in the 1990's researchers at Iowa State University found that many of the "weeds" the glyphosates were used to control were already developing immunities to that control and that immunity has increased as more and more of the poison has been used. So now you mix 2,4,D with glyphosate and create what? Keep in mind that mixing things like 2,4,D and 2,4,5,T plus other stuff, Agent Orange, was not supposed to be harmful to humans.
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Post by oliverman on Aug 16, 2015 23:41:39 GMT -5
Use of 2-4D is nothing new. It is commonly used to control broadleaf weeds in grass. Also widely used to kill weeds prior to planting many annual crops. The new Enlist branded corn is tolerant of 2-4D, so now spraying growing crops with 2-4D will be possible.
As for using a dessicant prior to harvest, I can understand why someone would want to do so. I lost 20% of my oat crop this year because of weed growth that made harvest impossible. This was due to excessive rain delaying harvest, which gave the weeds time to grow. An herbicide application would have allowed harvest to occur.
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Post by kimmsrđź•Š on Aug 17, 2015 5:43:08 GMT -5
2,4,D is not new. I can remember that stuff being sold in the late 1940's. It was not then, and is not now acceptable to any organic grower.
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